Events

WDS Events

The WDS co-convened Third International Polar Data Forum will be held on 18 – 22 November 2019, hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute at their Dynamicum campus in Helsinki, Finland. The Forum will be a two-day conference style meeting in support of information exchange, with the remainder of the week using a 'hackathon' approach that will build on the development work from other ...

With thanks to the generous sponsorship of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), t he World Data System of the International Science Council (WDS) will hold a Research Data Management (RDM) Training Workshop aimed at early career researchers and scientists (ECRs) on 6–8 November 2019 in Paris, France.
The purpose of the Workshop is to gain practical skills in data curation and ...

Since the ICSU era, establishment of data-oriented networks in developing areas is one of the efforts of the WDS. Along this line, the ‘ WDS Asia–Oceania Conference 2017 ’ was held on 27–29 September 2017 in Kyoto, Japan, bringing together 107 data practitioners, data repository managers, and researchers from 17 countries, mainly in the Asia–Oceania region. During the Conference, it was ...

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The second edition of International Data Week (IDW 2018) will be held on 5–8 November 2018 in Gaborone, Botswana. Hosted by the Botswana Open Science and Open Data Forum, IDW 2018 will bring together data professionals and researchers from all disciplines and from all parts of the globe.
Co-organized by the World ...

'Data Repositories Day 2018' will be hosted by the World Data System on Friday, 09 November 2018 at the University of Botswana in Gaborone; following the close of International Data Week 2018 (05–08 November). This event is open to anyone with an interest, and those from outside of the WDS family will be very much welcomed. Since this meeting incorporates the biennial WDS business meeting (the ...